Today we end the year with a 1996 Volkswagen Jetta GL.

When we think of cars that introduced important firsts, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class comes to mind as a modern example. This luxury sedan brought us the first driver's airbag as standard equipment and ...

Economics is famous for being the dismal science. Sadly, recent work highlighting the slowdown in productivity growth stretching back to the 1950s is no exception. But I take a more cheerful view ...

Modern road-vehicle tyres are made of extremely tough synthetic rubber and have steel wire and mesh reinforcement embedded within them, so they are far less elastic than, say, the tyres on my ...

Yes, but just a bit. A car measures the rotations of the axle and wheel. The speed is the distance traveled per hour (speedometer reading). The distance traveled (odometer reading) is rotations ...

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Yes, it does! Though not as much as speedometer fudging by your car manufacturer. Your car can only measure rotations of the axle, with expectations of tyre circumference based on its standard tyres.